Book-holding device



D. R. BARRY.

BOOK HOLDHJG DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1919.

Patfinted Apr. 2%

y m? 353% my DAVID REDMOND BARRY, OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS.

BOOK-HOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Application filed November 1, 1919. Serial No. 335,137.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, DAVID R. BARRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beaumont, in the county of Jefferson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Book-Holding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to book-holding devices and has for its object to provide a device adapted to hold back-turned leaves of a book to prevent its covering and obscuring the unturned leaves.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device especially, though not exclusively, adapted for use on check books for holding the completed stubs away from the stubs upon which memo is to be made at the time of making the check.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, which is made a part hereof, and on which similar reference characters indicate similar parts,

Figure l is a view in perspective of the device applied to and holding a conventional check book,

Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the device removed from the book, and

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a slightly modified form of the holding device.

The improved holding device which forms the subject matter of this application C0111- prises spaced fingers 10, with a tongue 11, preferably formed integral therewith and curved rearwardly, the curvature being first up, then to the rearward, and preferably with the end slightly elevated to assist in placing the same upon the stubs or leaves of the book. The fingers 10 spaced apart form a space 12 through and between which ference in any manner with the underlying stubs.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A book-leaf holder comprising spaced strips and an arcuate tongue between the strips and tangental to the plane thereof.

2. A book-leaf holder comprising spaced strips lying in the same plane and an arcuate tongue starting in the same plane with and between the strips and tangental to the said plane.

3. A book-leaf holder comprising spaced strips lying in the same plane and an arcuate tongue starting in the same plane with and between the strips and intermediate the ends thereof and tangental to the said plane.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Beaumont, Texas, this 27th day of October, A. D. nineteen hundred and nineteen.

DAVID REDMOND BARRY.

lVitnesses:

L. E. NEY, L. E. BERNARD. 

